3: the character
I began to like McCann because he wasn’t really that strong at getting his point across but he was used by Goldberg to put pressure on his victim. I liked the idea of pier pressure because it could be used to get people to do things at you’re command. In the scenes we are practicing at the moment, Duncan Gray and I have to circle Stanley asking him questions about his life which he would rather not answer. I guess that we were confusing him until he broke down. That showed the power of pier pressure. Stanley would have broke down a lot earlier but Goldberg and Stanley creted a climbaxe.
4:aims as and actor
5: rehearsal notes
This week we did some Stanislavski, which was vital I think for developing our characters. For example I pictured McCann as a potbelly pig and as a fluffy cloud for the shape and many others. At the moment I am designing my character with my friend Moss, we are thinking about what we should wear. We came up with dissension that McCann should wear a leather jacket that stops at the knee and make him as fat as possible. Duncan’s costume has to be as sinister as possible by means of dressing him up as a dark sided, evil looking man with no sole. He will wear a leather jacket and Gestapo gloves.
Duncan, Moss and me are doing a bit text editing. We are adding and subtracting some parts of the script to try and get away with Duncan and I looking as scary as possible and still make it sort of a comedy. In the mere future we shall do some blocking to sort some of our scenes out of their boringness.
Props we are going to use are as follows:
- A bottle
- Box’s to make the cellar more surrounded.
THE CHARICTER
I began to like McCann because he wasn't really that strong at getting his point across but he was used by Goldberg to put pressure on his victem. I liked this idea of pier pressure because it could be used to get people to do things at you're command.
In the sense we have been practicing at the moment Duncan gray and I have to circle Stanley asking him questions about his life which he would rather not remember. I guess we were confusing him until he broke down. That really showed the power of pier pressure. Stanley would have broken down a lot earlier but Goldberg and Stanley created a climax. From the audience's point of view would be very tense and would make them cringe as the questions got more and more complicated.
McCann really doesn't have a main aim because he is really just the other man Goldberg really has the main aim. It is probably to scare as many people as possible and still keep it cool. Well now come to think about it he is probable just there to add to the pressure that Goldberg inflicts.
The Stanislavski thing really helped to sus out my character background because McCann is rook hard on the out side and soft on the in side. I thought that this would make him a bit odd but if you think about it you could still have a half-decent conversation with him. McCann had a dark color and a bitter taste he can be sinister but there is a lot that goes behind that.
McCann is kept going by the constant commands glob burg gives him but will give up very quickly until Goldberg sends him back to do it again. Goldberg is really a minder who looks after McCann just in case any thing goes wrong. McCann receives the instructions and does them what ever it is, if he was told to jump off a cliff he probably do it.
Q. What do you do?
A. I do whatever Goldberg does
Q. Do you consider you're self-immortal?
A. Well I don't know where I was born and I haven't tried to kill my self but it seems strange to me that I have no memory of my passed.
Q. Why did you go after Stanley which Goldberg?
A. Well we where just bumming around some bed and breakfast’s when Goldberg said to me that we have to go and find this guy called Stanley so we did.
Over the last few weeks we have been going over the play again and again. I now feel confident enough to perform the play without a script. Graham and Duncan I think know there line quite well and I think that all they need to do is practice on there queues as they might go a bit off track.
Now I think the main aim is to start to think about what to wear.